Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goldblatt has published five books, includingtwo with novelist Nadine Gordimer, and has heldexhibitions around the world of his photographs...
Vidal -- perversely brilliant novelist, acerbic gadfly and now movie actor -- lives in self-imposed partial exile in a massive villa in the postcard- picturesque town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi coast. All his surroundings are serene. Vidal, 67, is a tireless, disciplined author, and his house is in every detail of location and layout designed to enhance concentration...
...result, the novelist's only immortal achievement, Hawkeye, who was born Natty Bumppo in a colonial settlement but was raised by a Mohican family, has at last a context worthy of his importance as a mythic figure. This character, blending the Old World tradition of gallantry with the New World's belief in the moral supremacy of those who live in close harmony with nature, is our Ur- frontiersman, the archetype on whom everyone from William S. Hart to Clint Eastwood has fashioned his variations...
Celebrity novelist Gore Vidal, as incumbent Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Brickley Paistle, is an effective, though more serious, counterpoint to Roberts. In a televised debate, Paiste defends child care, health care, "Sacrifice," while Roberts urges a tax cut and decries "wasteful social programs...
...TITLE IS ENVY. Iago, weep. In her second book -- her first was last year's best-selling Damage -- British novelist Josephine Hart has concocted a silly piece of romantic formula and fitted it out with enough heavy portents to sustain a Greek myth. "They say the veil that hides the future from us was woven by an angel of mercy," she muses. Or, "Novelists of our own lives, making ourselves up from bits of other people, using the dead and living to tell our tale, we tell tales." And this is only in the prologue...